media drug free media. anger in japan office ownership of a group of islands is questioned by china threatening to put the agent giant against each other and yet another territorial disputes. a day the russian people will never forget the country marked sixty eight diaz's a historic victory secured by an enormous sacrifice from soviet soldiers in bringing the losses to their knees. and immigration to germany hits a record low levels as for you countries take steps to protect themselves against so called a benefit story corps states. it's

nine am here in the russian capital you live with us on our tour with me to say it's good to have you with us this morning. japan's ownership of an entire. china sea may be up for review not by tokyo but by beijing the ark in our island chain urges home to sprawling u.s. military bases and tens of thousands of american troops now the people's daily considered a mouthpiece of china's communist party all but laid claim to the archipelago in an article written by academics japan i'll quickly hit back denouncing the paper as a political tool and declaring its ownership of arcane now beyond doubt if the latest are tauriel dispute marring relations between the two asian powers birth out so locked into a contest over another island chain james colbert to use the editor of a japan a base news website says china's am is

a two pressure japan making concessions elsewhere. it is at the very least an interesting new development in the territorial dispute and obviously meant to at least increase pressure on japan over the the disputed senkaku islands which is another part of this territorial dispute that's going on but in terms of okinawa itself it's been within the japanese sphere of influence for at least the last four hundred years now but of course this brings up the fundamental issue of all of this which is china is trying to argue that it has historical claims over the okinawa islands japan has these formal claims that it's set up in a major era back in the eighteenth seventy's but it's this group completely excluded from this is the fact that of course there is an ethnic indigenous population in okinawa who are the ones who are completely forgotten in all of this and are being used as pawns as they have had to suffer through basically imperial regime after imperial regime and now it's basically a site for u.s. military bases and japan i think is going to be more or less

a spectator in this i don't think that they have the ability to really stop china from from making these types of claims it's just a question of if and when this would actually spill into a military confrontation. that's a con hallinan a columnist for foreign policy and if they close the says time is made of maybe aimed more gave the washington. i think it's a couple of things going on one is that the chinese are very very disturbed about the the asia pivot on the part of the obama administration you what they see is that the united states has now moved sixty percent or is in the process of moving sixty percent of their armed forces into the pacific region so they find that very disturbing and there was a standoff with the but the clinton administration in the late ninety's in which the chinese had to back down from and they don't want to be in that position again so so part of this is a backdrop is is that this is

a way of kind of challenging that asia pivot but they're basically saying washington is don't push us don't come into our waters i do think as well there is an expert to kind of drive a wedge to a certain extent between japan and the united states only given its state certainly wants a war with china which japanese are being a bit more aggressive on this visit to trainees are pushing the envelope just a little bit to see if the u.s. will back off a little bit on its support of japan so far that hasn't happened but that's a possibility in the future. a day of a novelist pride to end a day of remembrance as mocking the sixty eighth anniversary all of the defeats of nazi germany. my.

obligating almost the entire european continent under their control hitler trooping crashed into the soviet union the waters most every soviet family uniting the nation against a common enemy massive soviet resistance secured victory to the red army pushed the nazis back to germany until their total surrender the u.s.s.r. suffered astonishingly high casualties and estimated twenty seven million people died most of them civilians today just over two million people living in russia veterans of that war and their contribution as well as those who sacrificed their lives will be remembered with flowers salutes and parades but others come on aeration a will be in moscow in just a couple of hours join me and reforma live from red square for the spectacular victory day parade which will commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the defeat of

nazi germany after many rehearsals everything is now in place for this event and it will see thousands of troops march through the heart of russia's capital over one hundred vehicles will roll across its kabul's and dozens of aircraft will decorate the skies above moscow you can watch it all along with our expert analysis here on r.t. this thursday. check out r g a dot com of for a look at preparation for the upcoming victory dates back to go there are images from the parades of full rehearsals lined up for you in the photo section. i. more immigrants arrived in germany last year than in any other during the last two decades many of the newcomers are from classes have some of the remember eastern european countries attracted by the near record levels of unemployment in germany and it's one of the four countries to have told the european commission it wants to protect its public

education and health systems from being overwhelmed by new arrivals are reports on the dollars over whether so-called benefits tourism actually exists yet the one about the dutchman the german the austrian and the english woman going to the european commission and asking for curbs on migration within the e.u. it's not a joke it actually happened holland germany austria and the u.k. say that they're concerned about the pressure being put on their public services as a result of so-called benefits terrorism so they've written a letter to the european commission asking for help in making it harder for freshly arrived e.u. migrants to access public services such as schools hospitals and accommodation the move comes just seven months before labor restrictions a lifted and the e.u.'s newest members remain ian ball garia are allowed to live and work freely anywhere within the european union brussels response to the letter

has been lukewarm they want to see evidence that this so-called benefits terrorism actually exists to talk about the issue i'm joined by her be brockman from the joint council for the welfare of immigrants thank you very much for joining us do you think there is the threat of all this pressure being put on public services in the u.k. let me tell you first this is. on share mad. didn't suggest otherwise we nor the two million. eight nationals came to this country and only thirteen thousand of them out of two million claimed jobseeker's allowance we know that for the health service that we have got hundred billion pound the budget for a national health service and only ten to twenty million pounds where recouped from european nationals so these are not. backed by evidence evidence is there if this is

a myth propagated by the media then why are the politicians of four key western european countries so concerned about it you see the politicians are pandering to the responsible tabloid media and public inciting to get some key vote but if we want to have a harmonized economy we want everyone's betterment in europe then we should work to not protectionism have be brachman thank you very much for your comments well there you have it the free movement directive one of the pillars the founding pillars of the european union but it looks like at the moment some key western countries are uniting together against a united europe. london league is also facing tough criticism from another financial quarter this time the international monetary fund which has won britain to ease up on the belt tightening the national secretary of the socialist workers party told us the government needs to rethink its priorities and dragging the country out of the dog runs. it's extraordinary that the international

monetary fund which is the high priests of neoliberalism who have imposed a stare at a as part of the troika along with the european union in the earthian central bank across the continent even though they are now telling osborne that his economic policies are a complete failure and they're causing heart attack for the economy with no growth with unemployment rising and with social chaos caused by these policies and there are more and more people who are completely fed up with these a stereotype policies which are attacking people's living standards while at the same time at the other pole of society the very very rich. ality is attempts to cut the deficit cause the economy to come to a halt and what we need is to completely change the priorities we need to stop the

impaired adventures in afghanistan and the talk of more involvement in syria we need to stop the trident nuclear program and we need to try the power away from the wealthy people at the top of society and start putting people first not profits. still coming up but i see the u.s. dishes out the dollars fans are spending hundreds of millions on the anti-missile system despite criticism that it's not as effective as it's being presented that still coming up. and how this will go along with the flow of these workers in russia definitely got into the swim of things the way they were out of the method of russia this is much more in a couple of. i

think going down of the sun and good morning we will remember that we will a really. good laboratory. was to build on. most sophisticated which on foot at least doesn't give a darn about anything to change mission to teach creation why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only on the algae dot com.

thanks. welcome back you're watching r t the us has plans to push further to get israel and palestine to the negotiation table with secretary of state john kerry planning a trip to the middle east even so washington continues to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the israeli army including funding the iron dome anti-missile system art his policy has been hearing from those who say the complex just isn't worth it . the brains behind the iron dome is radie but the funding is mostly american born the americans. assistance it solves the discussion and offered their assistance they have washington recently pledged an additional six hundred eighty million dollars for the point intercept a system that advocates claim has a success rate of more than eighty percent you know the numbers i've seen the results are you. could pretty even obama has gotten in on the act his

first stop at a recent trip to israel was to an iron dome battery where he told soldiers they're doing an amazing job because so much money has been spent on this defense missile system that now needs to be marketed and sold otherwise how do you justify something that has already cost the american taxpayer millions of dollars but for all its hype behind dome which is designed to intercept and destroy short range rockets aimed at populated areas is not foolproof i have a lot of question marks questions that include the system's effectiveness weapons experts lee united states and even in israel say the i.d.f. has y. be overstated its intercept success rate by a factor of ten more you can see very clearly that the project like this it's impossible to get a warhead work. so you've. destroyed eighty four percent of the

incoming orchids the celebrated technological wonder exploded onto the international stage after last year's israel gaza war but the math did not add up it proved disproportionately expensive as a defense against crude homemade palestinian rockets and mass. militants there are assembling these rockets which cost about one hundred dollars to make. which are very little more than than a pipe with an explosive to propel it forward. and they aren't going rockets. actually cost fifty thousand dollars. each bucket so shooting rockets to intercept one. of the finance makeshift bombs a makeshift rockets would cost a thousand times more than the cost of the rocket that is being intercepted but the i.d.f. has good reason to mislead the world about its effectiveness not only to taxpayers want to know the money is being well spent but enemies need to be deterred

especially gaza militants firing at israel's southern border city of stuart small bit wary. even more they developed. the defense of the war both was. the only way the can no defense is they were given the history of missile defense deception and the strong israeli incentive to deceive the people who pay for the system should be asking hard questions about how well it really works policy r.t. . there's more news on our website a renowned the physicist stephen hawking is causing a big bag over his wi fi is all to travel to israel cameras university insists he's not going because of health reasons i don't see it as a snub that the details online. and trained with a fifty field tank is a derailed in southern russia with characters exploding into pliable forcing thousands of people to evacuate the area r.t.

dot com has more on the. next proof of how you can rise above anything if you've got the means and the will power but in a cost no way explains how a group of rushes a wave of inspiration got them from a to b. . it really seems like one collab can you just look at the queue there are so many people there and amazingly they're not just standing there for a bus right they're actually crossing the river using these to ask invaders so for some it can be have a traffic and for others to have a way now let me give you some details on what is actually happening there this video was shot at the end of march in the north of the mountains and as you can see the area is flooded and it also seems that there is going to be a bridge build there in the future but for now people still have to cross it somehow and it seems they've found a way better call it an adrenaline draw and now you've got one ask evader loaded

worth three sometimes even more people now it means the other one half way people climb from one ask a vader to be other it all looks rather dangerous but look at the people they seem quite pleased with themselves anyway when this video first appeared on the internet it went viral with so many commons and very few people were actually concerned about the fate of the passengers some even labeled this video as another example of how russians can be resilient and resourceful well it's really hard to argue with that watching this footage. some more of today's world headlines for you now further clashes have erupted between police and students marching for free education in chile's capital security forces use what they can and to hold back the right isn't something yeah good tens of thousands of students have to posit nationwide demonstrations as part of an ongoing movement for education reform that

began back in twenty eight and. britain is pushing for the e.u. arms embargo against syria to be amended or lifted just so that weapons can get to the rebels the cards lunches expire at the end of may and will most likely be extended so for. months of calls to the plan despite widespread european fears that it will only worsen the conflict and independent u.n. reports suggest the rebels have most likely used chemical weapons although britain and the us mint tain that it's the regime that's the point them. pakistan will call out from the u.s. led war on terror if the men tip to become the country's next prime minister is elected now was a story for the pakistan muslim league says it's the only option to bring peace to the central asian nation as are all elections are due on the eleventh of may after campaigning season marred by violence and attacks which underline the country's just good security situation. the american

civil liberties union is on a mission to educate the public about the dangers of accumulating too much debt that's after they revealed of figures showing a rising number of people who fail to pay their debts are thrown in jail or in a pot i has been to the state of ohio where the practice is fairly common even though it's criticized as unconstitutional a little western us state. internationally recognized for being the battleground we're on there across next president is decided let's talk about the importance of ohio and in the battle for ohio state eighteen electoral votes mean so much elbows paid a lot of attention ohio ohio. you're probably going to decide the next president of united states for the past thirty six years no candidate has entered the white house without winning this swing state while hisle undoubtedly wields an enormous

influence in the arena of u.s. presidential politics the state is currently garnering headlines for its prisons specifically the medieval type punishment being imposed on countless citizens who are drowning in debt according to a report released by the a.c.l.u. of ohio thousands of citizens are being locked behind bars because they are too poor to pay their debt and we saw some really troubling numbers one case that we looked at out of mansfield ohio there was a gentleman and his crime against the community was he let his dog walk in his mobile home park without a leash he was fined thirty dollars and he ended up being found in contempt of court and was sent to jail for not paying for a thirty dollars fifty five year old jackdaw lee was incarcerated three times for failing to pay nine hundred dollars in fines every ninety days you had a jail date. and if you weren't working well you're going to jail debt prisons

violate the u.s. and ohio constitutions according to the a.c.l.u. most of the defendants weren't given hearings before being jailed for outstanding fines if the court had taken any time to ask whether or not they couldn't afford to pay that they would see that these were people who just simply cannot pay they were individuals who are homeless many who haven't worked for months if not years people who are disabled. people who are taking care of disabled family members these are people who are working and just don't feel like spending the money these are people who literally have no money people like dante stiles who is unemployed and says he often has to choose between feeding his two children or paying his fines. back and forth back and forth in court back before a conflict here fifteen days here and while the cash strapped citizens are incarcerated in gutters prisons. there fines keep growing like credit card interest

it's described as a vicious circle it was seven hundred thirty thirty seven dollars ok at the eleven days when i went back to court at the court course and paranoid the public defended it went up actually two hundred dollars more than one point eight million ohioans reportedly live in poverty and i want to get it behind me dolly lost his job last year after missing work for a ten day sentence in debtors prison i had just started the job i was probably there not quite a month. i was expecting a paycheck so i'd gone in early to get a paycheck so i could go in and pay on my fine and upon my release i was terminated from my job dollie has received just fifty dollars credit for each of the sixteen days he was illegally imprisoned but most like styles have not and the state revered for predicting america's presidents has garnered a new reputation for how it punishes the poor. artsy ohio.

coming up after the break east meets west in a war time victory technologies say with. you know i've been asked a few times if i believe in conspiracy theories which is kind of an odd question i mean just in general believe in conspiracy theories like all of them even the ones that contradict each other i mean j.f.k. could have been killed by the mob the cia the k.g.b. and various secret societies at the same time or could he have been know what you just declare themselves official conspiracy theories that's silly obviously it isn't good just go around fishing for evil plots to explain every situation the mainstream media sure does lie a lot but i think they're telling the truth about that whole sky being blue thing

but on the other hand if you never question what the glowing box in your house tells you that just makes you a sucker the kind of sucker who bought that there were magical mysterious invisible weapons of mass destruction in iraq and you know what in all honesty there's actually been real evil conspiracies that have been exposed like the tuskegee experiment and the fascist coup attempt against president roosevelt in one nine hundred thirty s. over all people think it's pearcey theories are matter of belief but actually they're completely a matter of facts and there's a lot of good evidence to support a conspiracy and good arguments that maybe you should consider it but if someone tells you the president is actually a rip tell him from the cosmos yeah you might want to just stay away from that one but that's just my opinion.

i. in the early hours of a hot july dawn a group of unusually dressed people carefully head on to the shore of one of the me up as tributaries there clad in servant military uniform from the days of world war two. in the summer of nine hundred forty one on the sort of view of a crossing the a small landscape one hundred thousand people were killed while they were trying to escape the surrounding enemy. eyewitnesses say that the river ran red with blood for several days now candles float down the river. moscow's military

history club called the division has traveled here to honor the memory of fallen russian soldiers but this journey to smolensk is just the beginning now they have three thousand kilometers to cover across the european roads to take part in the legendary war and peace show in england. in the village of belching and candace the old hope surrounded by a huge park today it attracts collectors of military vehicles and others with an interest in reaction great battles of the past century the thirtieth war and peace show is about to take place. since the beginning of summer has turned the festival venue into a swamp. military enthusiastic began arriving long before the beginning of the show for them not even bad weather can overshadow the event they've been waiting a whole year for one after another festivals open up offering every thing from

uniform buttons to tanks. number two number two do you read me number two over to visit gas station one hundred kilometers from here is a third of a tank left do you copy i copy. there was an accident i fell off a four wheeler and broke my spine before that i was a physician a surgeon there is suddenly i was bedridden the last six months i started walking slowly recovering. but was thinking of was going to do when my friend from rostov told me he'd restored an old soviet. also had a gas sixty nine cheap it was me he restored it i did it in a movie star. i need a uniform to match. starts it. all the next

day the rain passes by the campground and belching historical reactors from a soviet afghan war paratroopers club keenly digging away the stubborn mud in accordance with military protocol the soldiers are preparing shelters in case of an enemy attack the most amazing thing is not one of these soldiers speak russian these people hail from belgium britain sweden france and holland. well we're digging a trench and we're trying to dig a trench we're doing it by hand so. we'll see how far we get an attorney for going to finish it reenacting soviet union in afghanistan because well. because no one else was there were basically it's nothing political over enough for communism or something like that it's just out of interest it was quite secret interesting to research also quite hard to. read russian.